Maria Altmann famously won back prized Klimt paintings that were stolen from her Jewish family by the Nazis. After her death, Isabel Wilkinson remembers the pioneer of art restitution. With the death ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died ...

Tufts Hillel hosted Judith Altmann, a Holocaust survivor and educator, as part of its Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education last night for a lecture sharing her story of ...

Before the start of the high school football season, District 4-4A was viewed as one of the the most difficult in the state — regardless of classification. And while most expected it to be greatly ...

Maria Bloch-Bauer Altmann never wanted a fight. In fact, she never wanted Gustav Klimt’s celebrated portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, to leave Austria, the country Altmann had escaped during ...

Two Princeton professors, Jeanne Altmann and Peter Singer, have been awarded 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Awards by the BBVA Foundation. The awards recognize basic research and creative work worldwide ...

Maria Altmann, who died on February 7 aged 94, waged a determined and ultimately successful battle to force Austria to hand over five paintings by Gustav Klimt which had been seized from her Jewish ...

With the death of Maria Altmann on Monday at age 94, the world has lost a trailblazer of Holocaust art restitution and one of the last links to painter Gustav Klimt’s Vienna. In recent years, Altmann ...

“SUFFERING” was the first word that came to Maria Altmann when she was asked about Aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer. Frail, dark, beautiful, always with a headache. Children annoyed her, because she had none of ...